DayofPal—Israeli legal center Adalah called for an investigation into the rape of a German journalist who participated in the 2025 Gaza-bound humanitarian aid mission Global Sumud Flotilla.
Adalah filed a complaint to the Israeli authorities, demanding “a criminal investigation into the serious testimony given by the European activist.”
Adalah said Israeli female prison guards at Givon Prison in Ramla ordered the German journalist to strip completely naked while male guards watched from behind a curtain.
One of the female guards then sexually assaulted her, accompanied by the laughter of male guards, the center said.
“During the transfer of our client from the port to Ketziot Prison (in the Negev Desert), she, along with other participants in the flotilla, was subjected to physical and verbal violence inflicted by security forces and prison service employees,” the statement added.
The violence included “restraining her for long periods, using plastic handcuffs, blindfolding, screaming, physical attacks, and threats,” the statement noted.
The Global Sumud Flotilla sailed toward Gaza in 2025 to deliver much-needed aid to the blockaded territory after an Israeli genocide killing nearly 73,000 Palestinians and wounding over 172,000 others, while destroying about 90% of Gaza’s infrastructure.
Israel maintained a blockade on the Gaza Strip for nearly 18 years and tightened the siege last March when it closed border crossings and blocked food and medicine deliveries, pushing the enclave into famine.
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